Chapter 417 - Skeleton Legion

Deep within the Sunset Forest, Huang Shengjun was commanding his millions of goblins to scour the land for ore veins to feed the Transmutation Golem.

It was already close to an upgrade, and with the gathered ores, Huang Shengjun finally completed the process. The Transmutation Golem unlocked a new function: it could now equip the lesser golems with Light Blades for melee combat.

Eager to test the Light Blade, Huang Shengjun manufactured a new lesser golem. The results astonished him. The weapon was made from pure Light Energy that allowed it to effortlessly phase past physical defenses and cut through nearly any solid material with ease.

With the Light Blades, the lesser golems’ combat power had increased at least fivefold. Combined with their Magic Cannons, their overall strength was on par with a Lord life form.

As long as he could provide the Transmutation Golem with enough ore, it could manufacture 100 lesser golems a day without any issues. Given enough time, Huang Shengjun’s power would grow without limit.

Huang Shengjun was so excited that he almost quit the game on the spot, eager to bring the Transmutation Golem with him. This prize alone was enough to make leaving worthwhile, but his ambition stretched further. He wanted to find a Magic Ring as well. They were the Middle Realm’s crown jewels, and he refused to leave until he found one.

He was already forming a plan. Once he had 10,000 lesser golems, he would attack the other factions, crush them with brute force, and seize every treasure they possessed.

He knew that the Will of the Middle Realm had already vanished, leaving every faction on the edge of collapse. None could stop his lesser golems from trampling their kingdoms into dust. If by chance someone tried, he could simply order his tens of millions of goblins to finish the job.

Huang Shengjun ’s pulse quickened as he pictured himself ruling the Middle Realm’s entire southern region. “I will claim the Magic Rings and the lost treasures. No one can stop me!”

Just then, his most trusted subject, the former goblin king, entered with a report.

“My lord,” Caesar said, bowing low. “Four humans have entered the Sunset Forest and killed many goblins.”

“Four humans?” Huang Shengjun frowned in confusion. He used his own Divine Powers and projected his consciousness into a goblin near the site of the attack. Through its eyes, he saw Han Wu, Qin Shuang, Akanzor, and Bart killing the goblins on the frontline.

They were formidable, but far too few. The four of them stood against Huang Shengjun’s tens of millions of goblins. Even if the goblins offered no resistance, the humans would need years to wipe them all out.

Besides, Huang Shengjun’s Divine Power had enhanced his goblins’ fertility numerous times over. With so many of them breeding, hundreds of thousands were born each day. Then, through the power of Quality in Numbers, those newborns matured at an astonishing pace and quickly became battle-ready warriors. The four were killing too slowly, while the goblins replaced their losses with ease.

Huang Shengjun scoffed and issued his order. “Let them try to break through our defenses. Send more goblins to block their path and make sure to set traps for anything that can fly. Don’t let them take a single step into our territory.”

“Yes, my lord!” Caesar answered and hurried off to carry out his orders.

On the other side, Han Wu and his companions fought like madmen, cutting down goblins by the thousands. More than 10,000 had already fallen, yet each time they cleared a wave, another popped out to block their advance. Of the four, only Han Wu still fought at full strength; the others were already exhausted.

“Han Wu, there’s no meaning in killing them like this,” Qin Shuang said between breaths. “We need to storm their base and strike directly.”

Han Wu shook his head. “Huang Shengjun isn’t that careless. I’m certain he’s stationed powerful goblins inside, waiting to ambush us. If we rush in now, we will walk straight into his trap.”

Qin Shuang whispered, “But we have Smog’s help. The goblins can’t stop him.”

Han Wu smiled faintly. “The goblins can’t, but the Transmutation Golem might.”

Qin Shuang froze as she recalled that Huang Shengjun had stolen the Transmutation Golem. “Then what should we do? Keep slaughtering the cannon fodder? It’s a waste of time.”

“Have you forgotten the kind of warfare I excel at?” Han Wu asked.

“You mean the self-detonating locusts? No, wait. You’re talking about the skeleton legion!” She still remembered how unstoppable the skeletons became once their numbers grew. Much of Han Wu’s past success had come from commanding them.

Han Wu nodded. “We need to kill as many goblins as we can. The more we kill, the stronger our chances of victory.”

Qin Shuang returned the nod and hurled herself into the fight, lightning crackling from her palm.

Akanzor and Bart didn’t fully understand what the two meant, but they knew one thing: they had to keep killing goblins. Side by side, the two men cut down every goblin in their path, even keeping count to see who would claim the higher kill total.

The battle raged past midnight. Akanzor and Bart were already so tired that they couldn’t move a single muscle, yet Han Wu and Qin Shuang were still fighting relentlessly.

Corpses littered the ground in mounds, and Han Wu estimated more than 100,000 goblin corpses. It was time for him to act. He transformed into a skeleton and used his Skills to raise the dead.

One after another, tiny skeletons clawed their way out of their former flesh. Within moments, there were thousands of them.

Han Wu used Merge and fused them into ten Skeleton Knights that could summon more skeletons themselves. With their help, the remaining corpses transformed in a flash. Once the 100,000 corpses were reanimated, the skeletal army charged forward as one.

The skeletons didn’t fear death. They hurled themselves into the goblin ranks. The goblins fought savagely, smashing bones with their weapons, but each fallen skeleton soon got reanimated and returned to battle. On the other hand, the goblins had only one life; once slain, they rose again as part of the undead army.

Akanzor and Bart could only stare in disbelief. The sheer horror of the sight left them wondering if they could ever survive such an army. That terror hardened their faith in Han Wu.

Qin Shuang didn’t stay idle. She transformed into a Thunder Sparrow, soared into the air, and rained lightning on the goblins below. Her strikes quickened Han Wu’s summoning, and within three hours, the goblin frontlines collapsed. Over 500,000 skeletons stormed into the Sunset Forest.

Han Wu used Merge once more, combining 167,700 skeletons into a tiny skeleton. It looked fragile and unassuming, but anyone who dared to underestimate it would pay a heavy price.

This was the skeleton race’s infamous Osteomancer, and its current strength had reached the rank of a Lord life form. With a mere gesture, countless bone fragments congregated around it to form its body. In the next instant, a twenty-five-meter-tall giant rose to its full height, and the earth quaked beneath its steps.

The Sunset Forest now faced a calamity unlike anything it had ever known.